..Patient adherence to cardiac secondary prevention medications declines over time. We examined whether the length of the initial prescription at hospital discharge after coronary angiography would be associated with long-term adherence...

A systematic review of the use of theory in randomized controlled trials of audit and feedback

..Examining the extent of theory use in studies of audit and feedback will yield better understanding of the causal pathways of audit and feedback effectiveness and inform efforts to optimize this important intervention...

..Although colonoscopy is increasingly performed in nonhospital facilities, studies to date examining differences between colonoscopy services in hospital and nonhospital settings have been limited, in large part, to administrative databases...

Access to rheumatologists among patients with newly diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis in a Canadian universal public healthcare system

..Here we reassessed the accuracy of the algorithms using primary care records as the reference standard...

A validation study of administrative data algorithms to identify patients with parkinsonism with prevalence and incidence trends

Debra A ButtResearch Institute, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont, CanadaNeuroepidemiology 43:28-37. 2014

..This reduces their use for health services planning. The purpose of this study was to validate algorithms for the case ascertainment of PKM from administrative databases using primary care patients as the reference standard...

..Achieving this goal requires the development of accurate patient-disease registries. This study aimed to develop and validate an algorithm for identifying patients with ischemic heart disease (IHD) within the EMR...